When you’re in Tokyo, you sometimes get taken aback by what you see. Here’s an interesting sight I came across in Shimbashi.

Taken with iPhone 3Gs camera.
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Just because all you have at the time of a good photo opportunity is a low-quality iPhone camera, it doesn’t mean you have to end up with low-quality shots. I mean, you usually do, but sometimes…
Anyway, a little 気に入った photo I snapped in Harajuku while on a lunch break working in Omotesando. Lots to see [...]

Showa Kinen Koen 昭和記念公園 is a huge park in Tachikawa 立川, about a 40-minute train ride from Shinjuku on the JR Chuo Line.
There are tons of things to do there, like have a huge-ass barbecue with lots of friends, take a paddle boat out for a spin on the lake, play all kinds of sports, [...]

I’m going to admit, somewhat embarrassedly, that for the better part of a decade of living in Japan, I’ve been clueless about what makes sushi-bar sushi better than kaiten sushi.
That changed for me on Friday night, though.
As I’ve mentioned before, the little town of Umegaoka in Setagaya-ku, Tokyo is well-known for a sushi restaurant called [...]

A lot of ex-pats keep blogs chronicling the daily or weekly events of their lives abroad. And most have the Hey everyone, this is my neighborhood! post.
Last year, I wrote a post about how my neighborhood (was living in Shibuya then) was a pretty good representation of how ugly some Tokyo neighborhoods really are, despite [...]

Two years ago when I first learned that a new Tokyo tower was going to be built, images seen on TV and in other media of the original Tokyo Tower under construction popped into my head. I immediately became excited and decided then that I would photograph the new Tokyo Tower when it reached its [...]

Left-wing radicals made a daring assault on Shinjuku i LAND Tower today. They claimed they wanted to liberate Japan from its slavery to consumerism. The men had entered through some tenth floor windows shouting their political stance, but were soon placated by salesgirls at a DoCoMo shop inside the building, who offered them free keitai [...]

“Wait, wait… come on now,… am I a rock star or what? I mean, Damn! Look at me!”

“I don’t really think of myself as a rockstar, you know… I’m just me. I play bass in my band, and I care about nature and the environment, you know. I’ll probably get a job in civil [...]

You ever been to the Shimokita?
Lots of Japan noobs come to the Shimokita because they hear it’s a good place to buy vintage Levis or that it’s full of cheap drinking establishments that have cool, laid-back atmospheres. However, many a young gaijin punk-ass biyatch have come to the Shimokita looking for the next sweet Tokyo [...]

Hit the commute home on the Odayku line an hour and a half ago to find it not only snowing, but it was piling up more and more on the platforms of the stations we passed. By the time I got off at my station and started walking back to my apartment, the town’s streets [...]

I finally went and saw “Avatar” yesterday afternoon. I can’t really give a good reason why I wasn’t interested in seeing it before, but somehow the pre-release hype and the masses of people saying “Dude, ‘Avatar’ rocks!” just put me off.
Should’ve known better, I guess.
First of all, I love James Cameron (Titanic, too) and the [...]